Patient’s Rights

Patient's Rights and Responsibilities

In caring for the needs of our patients, WellStar West Georgia Medical Center recognizes that each patient is an individual with unique health care needs, values and perspectives. We strive at all times to provide considerate, respectful care focused on each patient’s personal wishes.

As a patient at West Georgia Medical Center you have the right to:

Receive services necessary for your care no matter:

What your race or religion is.

If you are male or female.

Where you were born.

When you were born.

What language you speak.

What you can or cannot do.

If you have a physical or mental disability.

What sources you have for payment of services.

What your sexual orientation, gender identity or expression is.

Talk honestly with and ask questions of your doctor and other health care workers, in words you understand, about:

Your illness and what your doctor has planned for your treatment.

Why treatments and tests are done and who does them.

Whether you will recover from your illness.

Your wish for a meeting or a second opinion from another doctor.

The need to transfer you to another hospital and the choices you have with the transfer.

Your wish to change doctors and/or hospitals or other providers.

Instructions for caring for yourself after you leave West Georgia Medical Center.